There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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